Prévisible – hétérotopies #2

Audiovisual installation

The Marseille-based association M-topia has invited Antoine Schmitt to imagine an artwork linked to prospectives and interrogations drawn by the notions of predictability and responsibility on future climate.

Prévisible – hétérotopies#2 exploits the long term geographical and meteorological prediction data and models extracted from a study directed by the research center GeographR on the evolution of the climate on the region of Sainte Victoire to question the notions of predictability and responsibility in complex realities.

Science tries to anticipate the future based on mathematical and physical models of a real system tending to rely on the past to deduct the future evolutions. To which extent is the future already written, to which extent can we influence it ?

At the beginning, a 3D map of the Grand Site Sainte-Victoire territory deploys, time passes from 2020 to 2100. It becomes an imaginary object, a living map like an organism gifted with a body reacting to temperature and precipitations. This transformation into a pulsating sphere delves the spectator into an abstract fiction, the life of a strange and tormented creature.

Prévisible – hétérotopies #2 explores the probable futures in the field determined by the models, sweeping the whole set of possibles, including the most extremes. At each generation of film, two models and a temporal path are drawn at random. The spectator thus travels in a scientifically plausible organic future.